Labour Affairs Magazine

Labour Affairs – March 2026

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• What Happened in Gorton and Denton?
• Some initial thoughts on the Gorton and Denton by-election
• War is making the UK poorer
• The president’s cake – film review
• Palestine Links
• Workers Party statements on Gorton and Denton
• Robert Skidelsky reflects on the Ukraine War
• Central Banks and Government Spending – A Tale of Two States
• Sahra Wagenknecht: Why doesn’t Merz call Putin?
• The Fraud: book review, part 2 
• Newsnotes: The Wastrels of the Western World; Envy?; Elon Musk Praises England As It Never; Did Exist; Downgrade Motherhood, Be Astonished; at a Lack of Babies; Epstein and a Wider Malaise; Sympathy for the ‘Devil’s Alternative’; From Russia With Self-Incrimination; Venezuela – Trump Lawless But Not; Dumb; Guilty Hangovers from Puritanism; Nuremberg Trials – Lynch Law in Fancy; Dress; Trumpism Without Trump?; Drug Barons and Drug Customers

Labour Affairs – February 2026

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• Davos – You’re All Fired
• Sahra Wagenknecht’s Newsletter
• The Russian Art of War
• Arbitrary Rule, Sanctions, and Jacques Baud
• Starmer’s U-turn on Digital ID –does he really mean it?
• Palestine Links
• Twilight of the Baby Boomers
• The US Constitution and Its Influences
• The Americanisation of Football
• Money, Money, Money
• Kier Starmer as a Well-Funded Fraud 20
• Venezuelan oil, Sanctions and Petrodollars
• Notes on the News: ; Twilight of the Baby Boomers; Trump – Not For All Mankind; Iran – Another Failed Colour; Revolution; Global Warming as Regional Freezing; Kiev’s Greed Causes Its Suffering; ‘White Traitors’ in the USA?; Cosmopolitan Canada; China Keeps Cleaning Up

Labour Affairs – December 2025 – January 2026

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Labour Affairs –November 2025 Issue

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• On the Road to Digital Serfdom
• Rachel Reeves’ Budget Dilemma – Households and Governments
• The significance of the 1984-85 Miners’ Strike
• The failure of British industry – a personal experience
• Extracts from the BSW Bulletin in October
• Letters about the ‘Unite the Kingdom, Freedom of Speech’ March
• The Crime and Policing Bill 2025
• Palestine Links
• The death of Reagan’s Star Wars
• Notes on the News: ‘Feed the Rich’ – the Creed of Today’s Labour MPs, Who Are the Next Nine?, True-Born English – Not Replaced, But Diminishing, Black Insiders Defending Hedge-Fund Hegemony, China Still Rising, Reform’ – Fools are Fooled Twice, International Law – Never a Reality, Idealism Is Still There, Roosevelt the Hopeful But Imperfect

Labour Affairs –October 2025 Issue

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• Editorial The Onward March of the ‘Deplorables’
• London’s Anti-Immigration Rally
• Notes on the news
• Palestine Links  
• Trotskyism 
• Immigration in Ireland and Britain
• A German Social-Democratic Warning from 2017 
• Sarah Wagenknecht – Letter From Germany
• An Unhealthy Relationship—the Labour Party and the Unions
• Freedom of Speech
• Immigration – Giving Away the Lives of Others; Feed-The-Rich Privatisation; Hungary – the Wounds of 1956; Structureless Protests are Fun, but Failures; USA Resenting Indian Success; Hindu Home-Grown Racism; Poland Replacing Coal With Nuclear; Sunlight for Power and Food; Robots – Dangers and Hopes; Still Fighting to the Last Ukrainian; Did Russia Invade Poland in 1939?; Give Me Liberty; and I Will Morosely Shoot Myself; Corbyn, the Man Who Would Not Be King

Labour Affairs –September 2025 Issue

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• Destruction of Democracy
• Starmer Shuffles
• Rebuild British Manufacturing
• Unite the Union on Profiteering
• Palestine Action is not a Terrorist Organisation
• Palestine Links
• Sahra Wagenknecht Bulletin
• BBC Gaza coverage biased
• Prison for Vandalising Israeli Arms Factory
• The Rejection of the Bullock Report
• Falsifying Darwin and Feeding the Rich
• The recognition of Palestine
• Notes on the News: International Law, Lies about Ukraine’s Civil War, Labour Renewal, US Politics – Corrupt Long Before Trump, Gaza’s Yours, the Donbass is Ours ?, Should Xi try an Aksai Chin gambit?, A Mess in Bolivia, Honeybees Dying

Labour Affairs –July / August 2025 Issue

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• Editorial 1: Britain, Europe and Military Power
• Editorial 2: Starmer’s Partial U-Turn
• Letter on the PIP U-turn
• The Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance: The War in Iran
• Will Trump force Iran to give up its nuclear programme?
• Palestine Links
• How the European Commission came to assume power over Europe’s foreign policy
• Letter on Real Economics
• Markets and Socialism
• Notes on the News : The Western Betrayal of Real Equality; Anarchism: a Guarantor of Failure; Iran: a Martyr-Nation for Islam?; Reagan’s Encouragement of Market Parasites

Labour Affairs –June 2025 Issue

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• Editorial: Labour Needs a U-Turn in Economic Policy
• British Foreign policy 
• Liberalism, Neo-liberalism and the trade unions 
• Palestine Links
• How Russia was introduced to capitalism.
• Russia’s “Shadow Fleet”
• Labour’s Policy on  Apprenticeships: Smoke and Mirrors
• Europe is standing in the way of peace in Ukraine
• Notes on the News: China as a Global Example, Society Exists, and Immigrants Strain it, From Slave Plantations to the Vatican, Incomplete Humans Praising Incomplete, Brain-Machines, Cure the Internet with a Digital Passport, Snippets, Young people tricked into crimes, Canada to Split?, Humans With Human Limits

Labour Affairs –May 2025 Issue

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• The Great Reform Fraud
• Sahra Wagenknecht Group—Letter to Supporters
• USA Going to the Robodogs
• A Misfit in Moscow – review
• Uyghurs: why encourage an independentist Islamist group
• The UK Nuclear Deterrent
• Palestine Links
• Israel starving Palestinians 
• KneeCap statement 
• Notes on the News: Crimea, Victim of West Ukrainian Extremism; Lies as the Poison of Democracy; Squeezing Protestors; Global But Ignoble; Fading Fear of China; Old World Civilisations Unite?; Diversity for Superior Persons?; Is Dyslexia a Woke Imaginary Illness?; What Actually Works?; US Pressure on India

Labour Affairs –April 2025 Issue

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• The Workhouse Party
• Peace or Primacy
• Parliament notes: Lord Skidelsky wants to trust Russia
• Palestine Links
• The EU Commission will take us to war 
• Reflections on climate
• Political Parties aligned with the Working Class
• Pensions are not a Ponzi scheme 
• Energy, Russia, Ukraine and the EU 
• How Ukraine failed as a multinational state 
• Has Trump abandoned Ukraine?
• Notes on the News: False Fears of Russia; Russian Nationalism Killed the Soviet Union; From NATO to NUTO?; Decentralised China; Privatisation Blight in Denmark; Kurds Admitting a Tragic Defeat; Revolting Long-term Results of the Anti-; Marcos Democratic Revolt; You Want the Moon? You need SpaceX; Why Workers Tried Trump Again; “Not being the United States is why Canada exists”

Labour Affairs –March 2025 Issue

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• What does Reform UK stand for?
• Trade Unions – what are they for?
• Palestinian Links
• Trump cancels the New World Order
• Ukraine and the supply of Russian gas to Europe
• BSW bulletin: Near Miss in the German Election
• China Talks Peace and Good Sense
• Newsnotes: East Ukraine’s Invisible People; Putin’s Modest Appetite; Vance Orders Europe: Do It My Way; Billionaires: Wealth Accumulators; not; Wealth Creators; Germany: a Nation Once Again?; Germany’s Left Links and Alternatives; Canada An Unwanted Example?; Russia’s Narrow Escape; Poland Stops Pretending to Like Ukrainians; You Want the Law, But the Law Ain’t Coming; Half a loaf is the same as being doomed to starvation?

Labour Affairs – February 2025 Issue

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Editorial  Reeves False Debt and Interest Problem

• Sahra Wagenknecht on building a new party
• Is Farage against immigration?  
• Celebrating Hanukkah in Downing Street 
• Conversation with Richard Werner 
• Reflection on Climate Change
• Growth through war?  
• Russian gas and Ukraine
• Mick Lynch resigns 
• Democracy and Freedom of Expression
• UK Terrorism Act and Palestine  1296
• Civil Society and socialism Dave Gardner 
• Notes on the News  : “It’s not that she’s black, but she’s black”; Labour’s Submissive Tendency; Unsuccessful Strife, and Afterwards; Slovakia Dares to Disobey the Anglosphere; Will Trump Dump Kiev?; Snippets; How Russia Was Lost; Trump Endorses Greater Israel; Trump Wants the World: Does the World Say No?; Afghan Failure; Australian decline; Lynching the Audience

Labour Affairs – December 2024 / January 2025 Issue

December 2024 / January 2025: click to read it on-line at our website.
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• Britain on the Brink of War
• Starmer’s Useless Missiles 
• Sahra Wagenknecht Newsletter 
• Class Guerilla War in the Sixties
• Need for a peace movement
• Defenders of the Rich 
• Science and Politics, Climate and Weather
• The State by Gardner 
• Palestine links 
• Bevin, MMT and the Class Struggle
• US policy towards Europe’s energy needs
• ICC arrest warrants welcomed as ‘a glimmer of hope’ in Gaza
• Notes on the News: Putin’s Nuclear Gamble , Threaten carefully , In China, Bears Shit in the Woods! , Must We Be Eyeless In Gaza? , How to Reverse Progress and Be Very Baffled , Snippets , Trump Abandoning Taiwan? , Conciliation Within China , Reaching across the Pacific , India Neglects Its Poor

Labour Affairs – November 2024 Issue

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• Reeves’ Debt Dexterity
• Nationalisation of Water Industry
• BRICS Kazan meeting
• Union reactions to Labour’s Industrial Plan
• The New Deal for Workers – a focus on ‘rights’ but what about power?
• Sergei Lavrov Puts Russia’s Viewpoint
• Wars of the Chickenhawks
• Palestinian links
• Notes on the Climate
• Why the Workers’ Struggle is a Class Struggle
• Sahra Wagenknecht newsletter#
• Newsnotes: BRICS and the G7 Hegemony, The Unwisdom of the New Right, At Home in BRICS, The Sacred WASP Democracy of the USA, Millionaires as Wealth Consumers, Taiwan – Beijing Could Just Blockade, A Palestinian Anne Frank?, Non-Wealthy IT Pioneers

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